Gershwin: I Got Rythmn Variations

“Ms. McDermott…an excellent chamber musician, played with robust zeal.” The New York Times on a concert performance featuring Anne Marie McDermott

“… the performances… fly off the page with verve and confidence, rhythmic precision and real style. The slow movement of the Concerto in particular is wonderfully characterised, all smokey blues with decadent solos from the muted first trumpet. Strongly recommended.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2008

“Love him or hate him, audiences tend to have strong feelings about pianist Fazil Say. His jazz and boogie interpretations of classical works and his flamboyant performance style – in which he reaches inside the piano to pluck the strings or hums along with himself à la Glenn Gould – are cited as manifestations of genius or impudence, depending on whom you ask.” (New York Magazine, 19 April 1999)